Embassytown
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Read between February 6 - March 22, 2019
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‘It’s beyond words,’ indeed. There’s no such thing.”
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there’s only ever been one immer, one always.”
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People get lost in the overlapping sets of knownspace.
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since women and men found the immer and we becameHomo diaspora.
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They had to make it so they could say ‘It’s like the rock which was split and fixed.’ About whatever it is they say that about.”
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Being a child is like nothing. It’s only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.
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her pictures, her coffee table, her imported rug elements of an operating system, designed to make her user-friendly.
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They said things that had no meaning at all: “Come on now!” or “Move away there!”
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We were trying to find language to make sense of a time before whatever came after.
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He couldn’t say his own name correctly.
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’waregener
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the slower processes of internal rot would smear them gradually into the road.
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not war at all really but something more pathological.
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They flagged us when anything beyond their expectation-algorithms occurred,